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University Slapped for Free Speech Violation - 7/15/2008 11:19:37 AM   
cow451


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University Apologizes to Janitor for Actions After Reading Book on Break

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A janitor whom a university official had accused of racial harassment for reading a historical book about the Ku Klux Klan on his break has gotten an apology — months later — from the school.

Civil Liberties groups, including the ACLU took up the case, which drew attention from the Wall Street Journal.

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RE: University Slapped for Free Speech Violation - 7/15/2008 11:26:43 AM   
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"You used extremely poor judgment by insisting on openly reading the book related to a historically and racially abhorrent subject in the presence of your black co-workers," Lillian Charleston wrote in a letter to Sampson.


Just like a liberal to try and re-write history. What is it with these people? It was even a postive step in the civil liberties fight in the 1920's and this university (btw, one in which I attended for a short time) has to muck up history this way?
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RE: University Slapped for Free Speech Violation - 7/15/2008 11:41:14 AM   
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Status: online 		I think one of the problems is that the definiton of 'harrassment' has gone from a fairly straighforward legal idea (someone intentionally and systematically taking actions to cause the discomfort of another) to the one that seems to currently reign, that being anything that makes a person in a protected class uncomfortable, as asserted by that person. The former should be dealt with legally, the latter should be roundly derided.

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RE: University Slapped for Free Speech Violation - 7/15/2008 4:16:31 PM   
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RE: University Slapped for Free Speech Violation - 7/15/2008 4:23:15 PM   
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ORIGINAL: EStan

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LOL

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RE: University Slapped for Free Speech Violation - 7/15/2008 10:31:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		His black co-workers are against him reading a book about how the KKK got pounded in a riot? I'm confused! You think they would have cheered on such action!

What if his co-workers were reading a book on Louis Farrakhan and his form of racism or Malcolm X's early works. Would they say it's OK then?

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